Book Description:GRANTA BOOKS, United Kingdom, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 192 x 130 mm. Language: English Brand New Book. Intrigued by reports of increasing poverty and despair within America s white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter and learn about the problems facing middle-class executives at first hand. Thinking she had set herself a pretty easy challenge, the author was quite unprepared for what happened next. Ehrenreich found herself entering a shadowy world of Internet job searches, lonely networking events and costly career-coaching sessions, a world in which professional mentors and trainers offer pop-psychology and self-help mantras to desperate would-be employees. Her story is an important one - poignant and blackly funny - that delivers a stark warning about the future that faces corporate employees everywhere and calls for collective action to guard against it. Bookseller Inventory # AB99781862078970

Book Description:GRANTA BOOKS, United Kingdom, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 192 x 130 mm. Language: English Brand New Book. Intrigued by reports of increasing poverty and despair within America s white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter and learn about the problems facing middle-class executives at first hand. Thinking she had set herself a pretty easy challenge, the author was quite unprepared for what happened next. Ehrenreich found herself entering a shadowy world of Internet job searches, lonely networking events and costly career-coaching sessions, a world in which professional mentors and trainers offer pop-psychology and self-help mantras to desperate would-be employees. Her story is an important one - poignant and blackly funny - that delivers a stark warning about the future that faces corporate employees everywhere and calls for collective action to guard against it. Bookseller Inventory # AB99781862078970